Plate Tectonics Vocab Flashcard

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Boundary where two plates move apart

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Divergent plate boundary

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Boundary where two plates move toward each other

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Convergent plate boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Feature on continental crust at oceanic-continental convergent boundary?

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Volcanoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Boundary represented in the figure?

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Transform boundary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Plate with Greenland, Siberia, North America, and surrounding areas.

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North American

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Plate containing the Pacific Ocean?

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Pacific plate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Plate containing a country in Asia and Australia:

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Indo-Australian plate

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Continental and oceanic crust converge; which is subducted?

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Oceanic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Mountain building occurs at which plate boundary?

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Convergent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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Area of oceanic crust covered by seawater and surrounded by continental crust?

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ocean basin

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4